That is nice looking. I have never done a cape, does it come out flexible or is it paper stiff? A couple pics of what I do with mine. I do not just dry them with borax, I pull the feathers from the tail and pin them on a board and fasten them together.

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Doug, when you dry out the cape its paper stiff. Its flexible enough that you can shape it some. In the picture below I used a piece of styrofoam and pinned the cape to it. I did it to give it a little body instead of being flat.

When I do tail fans as in the above pics I pull all the primary and secondary feathers out and number them, then I pin them on a board and fasten them in place with bondo. I then take the smaller feathers and use hot glue to put them in place to finish it. Takes about 4 hours to do a fan. Will have to try drying a cape and see if I can fasten it to the fan, never tried it before.

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